Paintings

Snowy Mountains and Red Trees Scroll. Six Dynasties

A scholar contemplates the vista from a pavilion, while a visitor on a donkey crosses a frost-laden bridge, their postures subtly conveying winter’s bite and literati resilience
Snow Scenery Scroll. Song Dynasty. Ma Yuan

This work bridges Southern Song lyrical minimalism and Ming reinterpretations, offering insights into Ma Yuan’s enduring influence and the evolution of “academy-style” landscape painting.
Spring Festival Auspicious Scroll：Frozen Festivities in Ink

scholars in sable cluster around wine warmers while linen-clad servants stand frozen, unlit firecrackers dangling like Damocles’ sword. Hailed as “a pathological specimen of Ming genre painting.”
Spring Mountains and Auspicious Pines Scroll

Mi Fu’s “Cloudy Peaks and Pines” scroll whispers ancient burnout remedies through ink-wash poetry. The lone pavilion stands like a medieval mindfulness app icon, while mist-shrouded pines encode Song-era work-life balance wisdom.
A Silent Love Tragedy in Ming Art: Why Did Lü Ji Separate the Ducks?

Artwork captures emotional tension through minimalism: ducks turn away on a cold stone, duckweeds hover mid-fall. This Ming court masterpiece is hailed as “the spiritual breakthrough in bird-and-flower painting.”
Xia’ao Yanxia – Harmony with Nature and Inner Freedom

Artwork integrates landscapes and figures to express his profound contemplation of nature, reclusive living, and artistic philosophy.
Chang’e’s Flight to the Moon Handscroll, Tang Yin

This painting depicts the lunar goddess Chang’e holding a rabbit in quiet contemplation. Chang’e stands apart, her gaze introspective, as if pondering the bittersweet divide between immortality and human connection.
Scroll Painting of Chongyang Wind and Rain

Chrysanthemums bloom in abundance, while slanting wind and drizzle animate the scene.
Take you to see a different Along the River During the Qingming Festival.QiuYing

This world-famous masterpiece of social customs painting of the Northern Song Dynasty has spawned countless copies, imitations, different versions and re-creations. Among them, Ming Dynasty’s Qiu Ying’s “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” is the most famous.